The dictatorship of Nicaragua forced the clear nuns to leave their monasteries in Managua and Chinandega, which has been qualified by a well -known researcher as a “horror night” for the religious.
According to the newspaper Mosaic csithe order of the dictatorship was executed on the night of January 28, with which some 30 closing nuns, belonging to the order of Santa Clara, had to leave their monasteries.
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An ecclesiastical source cited by the Nicaraguan newspaper notes that the envoys of the dictatorship “first went to notify the sisters (in the monastery of the Franciscan Clarisas sisters) in Managua and then went to Chinandega (to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary ) ”.
“They were told that they had to leave and let them get some of their belongings,” added the source.
Martha Patricia Molina, lawyer and author of the report Nicaragua: a persecuted churchwhich in its last edition accounts for almost 1,000 attacks of the dictatorship against the Catholic Church in the Central American country, described what happened as a “horror night for religious.”
Terror night for religious:
Sandinista dictatorship notifies the clear religious who must abandon their properties. They only let them get few belongings, which reached him just in his hands.
Most religious are Nicaraguans. It is unknown … pic.twitter.com/WHyZZYMClX— Martha Patricia M (@mpatricia_m) January 29, 2025
In your X accountMolina points out that the agents of the dictatorship “only let them get few belongings, which reached him just in his hands. Most religious are Nicaraguans. The whereabouts of them is unknown. ”
The researcher recalls that “the legal personality of the Congregation was granted by the National Assembly since February 2004 but on May 19, 2023 was arbitrarily canceled.”
Speaking to ACI Press on January 29, Molina recalled that the cancellation of legal status was due to “voluntary dissolution”, although “we already know that this voluntary is non -existent in the country but that the dictatorship forces them with the siege” .
Empty Bishop’s house Rolando Álvarez in Matagalpa
On January 28, the dictatorship also arrived at the Episcopal Palace of Matagalpa, the house of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, exiled since January 2024, and took out all the goods, furniture and place of the place.
“It is the same dictatorship that is taking that, because at least in the seminar (major of philosophy San Luis Gonzaga) did not let Mosaic csi.
Martha Patricia Molina told ACI Prensa that everything they took was loaded in “several white trucks used to remove all belongings, such as a cross. They tell me what to see that was painful. ”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.